Re: Sayings that people totally butcher.....
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That's a mute point.
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Oh god, this just kills me. I feel like stabbing people repeatedly when they say "mute point." It's "moot point," damnit.
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Do you try to stab the ones that say, "moot point", meaning not worthy of discussing when "moot" really means the opposite?
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moot
adj.
1. Subject to debate; arguable: a moot question.
2. a. Law. Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
b. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.
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